The Guardian published an article describing the possibilities and impossibilities of several popular science fiction ideas. Teleportation, Time Travel, Alien Contact, Invisibility, and Precognition were the ideas of interest.

Two lines peaked my interest.

1. A quote from Einstein which I wish I had remembered yesterday when writing about the Virgle Mars Colony. "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

2. Stephen Hawking believed that time travel was possible (although he also believed in the Big Bang, so use a grain of salt). However, he postulated that if time travel was possible, why haven't we seen any visitors from the future? His answer? Invisibility. The possibility of invisibility brings to mind some of the really weird stuff I had read about the Philadelphia experiments and project phoenix. Hopefully I'll be able to find that information again and write it all down here. In a more, here and now fashion, the article describes 'metamaterial' as being able to absorb light and shadow. I know I have read about metamaterial (or some variant) before...but I'm not sure I have written about them on aceize. I found that article.

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